Boy Dials 911 After Parents Take Away Xbox
Bad boy, bad boy. Be good or no Modern Warfare 2 for you!
When I was a kid under my parent's supervision (or dictatorship), I had things taken away from me as punishment. Be it TV time or video games, it'd be some sort of negative reinforcement. During none of those occurrences, however, did it ever come to mind that I should call the cops on my parents. Good thing I didn't, though, as it evidently doesn't work.
A 15-year-old boy had his Xbox taken away by his parents. Disgruntled, the boy called 911 but then hung up, reported the Chicago Tribune.
The police eventually showed up to residence to investigate. The boy asked authorities if his parents were within their right to take away his Xbox. The police told him that they were.
While the police did not find out why the boy was being punished, they advised him to listen to his parents.
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This freakout from a 15-year-old. This bodes well for the evolution of the human race...
I really wonder how this made the news...
slow news day?
I literally loled, fumiest piece of news in a while.
I used to think my parents were so cruel when they did this, heartless bastards, how can they take away my console.
Lol, kids these days...
Parents should be chastised for not instilling a sense of proportion into their offspring.
Only in America...
This freakout from a 15-year-old. This bodes well for the evolution of the human race...
Or.. just another liberal refusing to take responsibility for his actions. I applaud the parents for trying to enforce some discipline..however his response seems typical of a kid who is used to getting his way. I'm sure the parents will have to meet with social services and then go to sensitivity training.
Wow....he seriously didnt think it was in their rights?!...
I cant believe the increasing number of people who do these stupid things....
If I was his parents I would sell the Xbox now. "How do you like that now you little shit!"
This would have been cause for a severe beating in my house.
Is this the same kid who had the WoW freakout on YouTube?
If I was his parents I would sell the Xbox now. "How do you like that now you little shit!"
awesome .
Our instant info media center on the internet world ensures that every little thing like this that might be of interest to a few people, gets spread around for all of us to see.
Is this sort of thing happening more than ever before, or are we hearing about it more than ever before? Really, there have always been stupid people. And there have always been stupid people having kids. Now we have the internet to tell us the little fables of these stupid people and their stupid lives, everytime they do something stupid.
C'est la Vie.
I woulda asked to borrow the cops night stick and proceed to give that lil punk a religious experience
If I were his dad he'd better put 911 on speed dial after pulling a stunt like this.
ROFRLMAO!! Wow, talk about being disconnected from reality!
If I was his parents I would sell the Xbox now. "How do you like that now you little shit!"
personally i would take a sledge and start pounding on it in front of him....
slow news day?
At least there is 0 mac/macbook/osx news on the front page today so I'm happy.
slow news day?
Slow comment day?
No spelling errors! Nice article!
What's for lunch? I'm thinking either katsu or Indian!
Kids today believe in entitlement, which in turns make a person like this. Punish me? Well how dare you. Who do you think you are? So I got bad grades, suspended for whatever, or arrested for something stupid. You have no right.
Such crap. These kids need to learn that there are consequences to various actions. Of course some of these kids have obviously not learned this from their parents for whatever reason, or least not yet, and if they don't they will have a big wake up call later on in life.
And they said my generation (Gen X) would be the ones to bring the world to an end. Maybe that skips a generation
Or.. just another liberal refusing to take responsibility for his actions. I applaud the parents for trying to enforce some discipline..however his response seems typical of a kid who is used to getting his way. I'm sure the parents will have to meet with social services and then go to sensitivity training.
Another liberal? Give me a break... politics have very little to do with how much kids are spoiled these days. Over here the kids from left wing parents paint graffiti on garage doors, center leaning kids are being caught selling drugs at school, and kids from right wing families are rolling their brand new Jeeps (with 6 people, 5 unbuckled) while speeding and talking on their cell phone. It's all delinquent - kids these days are SPOILED. Period.
So right Parrdacc, my gen X as well thats what they said, its our offspring I guess. Just raise your kids right from the start and this wont happen, PARENTS out there! This kids needs a good wake up call, see the real world at work. Theres alot more out there than just your xbox kiddo, wake up!
they will also be within their rights when they kick his ungrateful arse to the curb for his 18th birthday present
Im curious though... What if the kid bought the xbox with his own money and hooked it up to his own monitor... im not talking about gifts he received, but stuff he purchased himself. Could he not claim theft against his parents?
the next generation of mankind will be nothing but cry babies and people who go on rages when losing in a video games.
I woulda asked to borrow the cops night stick and proceed to give that lil punk a religious experience
amen
Smart kid
Hard for parents to raise kids right when neither one of them is home...
The cops should have taken the kid to jail for improper use of 911.